A body was pulled from the Danube more than 100 km downstream from Budapest, officials said on Monday, the first apparent victim recovered since the night of a boat crash. South Korean and Hungarian divers prepared on Monday for an attempt to recover bodies from the wreck of The Mermaid, which sank on Wednesday carrying 33 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew. The bodies of seven South Koreans were recovered on the night of the disaster and seven were rescued alive. “One body, looks like Korean, already found 100 km from here,” the South Korean Embassy’s Defence Attache Shun-Keun-song said. Hungarian Police spokesman Kristof Gal said authorities were still trying to identify the body and could not yet confirm that it was from The Mermaid.

Source: The Hindu June 03, 2019 20:15 UTC